When I spend a lot of time typing, with no mouse movement, the screensaver kicks in. I have to move the mouse to make it go away. Is there a setting to get it to recognize keystrokes? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
When I spend a lot of time typing, with no mouse movement, the screensaver kicks in. I have to move the mouse to make it go away. Is there a setting to get it to recognize keystrokes?
Are you using KDE or GNOME? I'm pretty sure that XScreensaver, which GNOME uses recognises keystrokes, I'd be surprised if the KDE screensaver didn't... -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
On Saturday 03 January 2004 12:53 pm, James Ogley wrote:
When I spend a lot of time typing, with no mouse movement, the screensaver kicks in. I have to move the mouse to make it go away. Is there a setting to get it to recognize keystrokes?
Are you using KDE or GNOME? I'm pretty sure that XScreensaver, which GNOME uses recognises keystrokes, I'd be surprised if the KDE screensaver didn't...
I like to use the Shift key (Ctl or Alt are equally good) since it has no accidental side effects. Paul Abrahams
James Ogley wrote:
When I spend a lot of time typing, with no mouse movement, the screensaver kicks in. I have to move the mouse to make it go away. Is there a setting to get it to recognize keystrokes?
Are you using KDE or GNOME? I'm pretty sure that XScreensaver, which GNOME uses recognises keystrokes, I'd be surprised if the KDE screensaver didn't...
I'm using KDE on 9.0. The screensaver starts while I'm typing. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
On Saturday 03 January 2004 13:10, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm using KDE on 9.0. The screensaver starts while I'm typing.
Something must be wrong with it, then. Though I have not used 9.0 yet, I have used a variety of SuSE and other distros with KDE and never had the screensaver start while typing. ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************
Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Saturday 03 January 2004 13:10, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm using KDE on 9.0. The screensaver starts while I'm typing.
Something must be wrong with it, then. Though I have not used 9.0 yet, I have used a variety of SuSE and other distros with KDE and never had the screensaver start while typing.
******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer
Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************
I've not seen this in 9.0 Pro or any other distro, one box uses the distro KDE version and the other KDE3.2beta. Keystrokes are the only way known to get out of the screesaver. QUESTION --- HOW DO YOU GET OUT OF IT? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
Sid Boyce wrote:
Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Saturday 03 January 2004 13:10, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm using KDE on 9.0. The screensaver starts while I'm typing.
Something must be wrong with it, then. Though I have not used 9.0 yet, I have used a variety of SuSE and other distros with KDE and never had the screensaver start while typing.
******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer
Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************
I've not seen this in 9.0 Pro or any other distro, one box uses the distro KDE version and the other KDE3.2beta. Keystrokes are the only way known to get out of the screesaver. QUESTION --- HOW DO YOU GET OUT OF IT? Regards Sid.
I move the mouse to get out. Keystrokes don't get me out. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 17:34:13 -0600 Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@execpc.com> wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Saturday 03 January 2004 13:10, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm using KDE on 9.0. The screensaver starts while I'm typing.
Something must be wrong with it, then. Though I have not used 9.0 yet, I have used a variety of SuSE and other distros with KDE and never had the screensaver start while typing.
I move the mouse to get out. Keystrokes don't get me out.
I have SuSE 8.2pro and SuSE 9.0pro and do not have a problem with screen savers. I did have a problem with APM Power Control on my laptop (9.0) where when it went into standby, I could not get it back without a reboot. I set it to suspend and it works fine. The screen saver detects both the mouse and the keyboard for both systems. Note that my SuSE 8.2 system is running KDE 3.1.4. - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/91Th+wA+1cUGHqkRAmA4AJ4vBBv+VYaaUVlS6IZYIhi48q1W9wCfbyCz cQseyfd4/s2K4eUAUvQxDWI= =fbxQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Saturday 03 January 2004 13:10, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm using KDE on 9.0. The screensaver starts while I'm typing.
Something must be wrong with it, then. Though I have not used 9.0 yet, I have used a variety of SuSE and other distros with KDE and never had the screensaver start while typing.
Have you ever typed without using the mouse long enough for the screensaver to start? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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